This panel, the title of which is inspired by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian’s collection, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, seeks papers that address mourning not only as a sign of personal loss, but also as a site of political power. This panel aims to address the intersection between commemorations of the dead and political expression. For instance, papers might address the ways in which acts of mourning indicate recovery and produce narrative spaces, such as spiritual autobiographies, martyrologies, tragedies, and elegies. Papers might handle the distinction between mourning as alienation and that of community building or national memorializing. The panel solicits papers on a variety of genres as well as authors from the long eighteenth century. Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Misty Krueger at misty.krueger@maine.edu by September 15, 2013.

Accepted papers will be presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Williamsburg, VA, on March 20-22, 2014.

cfp categories:

eighteenth_century

ethnicity_and_national_identity

gender_studies_and_sexuality

interdisciplinary

religion

theatre

travel_writing

By web submission at 07/24/2013 - 20:00

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